4025 Commits (197d33ccbe888fc84ae4e49bb241e88ea3c81f15)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Amit Kapila	c64dcc7fee	Fix test case added by commit f5fc2f5b23. ... In the new test after resetting the stats, we were not waiting for the stats message to be delivered. Also, we need to decode the results for the new test, otherwise, it will show the old stats. In passing, a. Change docs added by commit f5fc2f5b23 as per suggestion by Justin Pryzby. b. Bump the PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID as commit f5fc2f5b23 changes the file format of stats. Reported-by: Tom Lane based on buildfarm reports Author: Vignesh C, Justin Pryzby Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319185247.ldebgpdaxsowiflw@alap3.anarazel.de	4 years ago
Michael Paquier	7ef8b52cf0	Fix typos and grammar in comments and docs ... Author: Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210416070310.GG3315@telsasoft.com	4 years ago
Michael Paquier	c731f9187b	Replace magic constants for seek() calls in perl scripts ... A couple of tests have been using 0 as magic constant while SEEK_SET can be used instead. This makes the code easier to understand, and more consistent with the changes done in 3c5b068. Per discussion with Andrew Dunstan. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YHrc24AgJQ6tQ1q0@paquier.xyz	4 years ago
Amit Kapila	f5fc2f5b23	Add information of total data processed to replication slot stats. ... This adds the statistics about total transactions count and total transaction data logically sent to the decoding output plugin from ReorderBuffer. Users can query the pg_stat_replication_slots view to check these stats. Suggested-by: Andres Freund Author: Vignesh C and Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko, Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319185247.ldebgpdaxsowiflw@alap3.anarazel.de	4 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	fae65629ce	Revert "psql: Show all query results by default" ... This reverts commit 3a51306722. Per discussion, this patch had too many issues to resolve at this point of the development cycle. We'll try again in the future. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904132231510.8961@lancre	4 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	59da8d9eb7	amcheck: Use correct format placeholder for TOAST chunk numbers ... Several of these were already fixed in passing in 9acaf1a621, but one was remaining inconsistent.	4 years ago
Robert Haas	9acaf1a621	amcheck: Reword some messages and fix an alignment problem. ... We don't need to mention the attribute number in these messages, because there's a dedicated column for that, but we should mention the toast value ID, because that's really useful for any follow-up troubleshooting the user wants to do. This also rewords some of the messages to hopefully read a little better. Also, use VARATT_EXTERNAL_GET_POINTER in case we're accessing a TOAST pointer that isn't aligned on a platform that's fussy about alignment, so that we don't crash while corruption-checking the user's data. Mark Dilger, reviewed by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/7D3B9BF6-50D0-4C30-8506-1C1851C7F96F@enterprisedb.com	4 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	07e5e66742	Improve quoting in some error messages	4 years ago
Michael Paquier	93f4146144	Simplify tests of postgres_fdw terminating connections ... The tests introduced in 32a9c0b for connections broken and re-established rely on pg_terminate_backend() for their logic. When these were introduced, this function simply sent a signal to a backend without waiting for the operation to complete, and the tests repeatedly looked at pg_stat_activity to check if the operation was completed or not. Since aaf0432, it is possible to define a timeout to make pg_terminate_backend() wait for a certain duration, so make use of it, with a timeout reasonably large enough (3min) to give enough room for the tests to pass even on slow machines. Some measurements show that the tests of postgres_fdw are much faster with this change. For example, on my laptop, they now take 4s instead of 6s. Author: Bharath Rupireddy Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACXGY_EfGrMTjKjHy2zi-u1u9rdeioU_fro0T6Jo8t56KQ@mail.gmail.com	4 years ago
Bruce Momjian	0f61727b75	Fixes for query_id feature ... Ignore parallel workers in pg_stat_statements Oversight in 4f0b0966c8 which exposed queryid in parallel workers. Counters are aggregated by the main backend process so parallel workers would report duplicated activity, and could also report activity for the wrong entry as they are only aware of the top level queryid. Fix thinko in pg_stat_get_activity when retrieving the queryid. Remove unnecessary call to pgstat_report_queryid(). Reported-by: Amit Kapila, Andres Freund, Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408051735.lfbdzun5zdlax5gd@alap3.anarazel.de p634GTSOqnDW86Owrn6qDAVosC5dJjXjp7BMfc5Gz1Q@mail.gmail.com Author: Julien Rouhaud	5 years ago
Magnus Hagander	5844c23dc5	Merge v1.10 of pg_stat_statements into v1.9 ... v1.9 is already new in this version of PostgreSQL, so turn it into just one change. Author: Julien Rohaud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408120505.7zinijtdexbyghvb@nol	5 years ago
Fujii Masao	8ff1c94649	Allow TRUNCATE command to truncate foreign tables. ... This commit introduces new foreign data wrapper API for TRUNCATE. It extends TRUNCATE command so that it accepts foreign tables as the targets to truncate and invokes that API. Also it extends postgres_fdw so that it can issue TRUNCATE command to foreign servers, by adding new routine for that TRUNCATE API. The information about options specified in TRUNCATE command, e.g., ONLY, CACADE, etc is passed to FDW via API. The list of foreign tables to truncate is also passed to FDW. FDW truncates the foreign data sources that the passed foreign tables specify, based on those information. For example, postgres_fdw constructs TRUNCATE command using them and issues it to the foreign server. For performance, TRUNCATE command invokes the FDW routine for TRUNCATE once per foreign server that foreign tables to truncate belong to. Author: Kazutaka Onishi, Kohei KaiGai, slightly modified by Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy, Michael Paquier, Zhihong Yu, Alvaro Herrera, Stephen Frost, Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Langote, Daniel Gustafsson, Ibrar Ahmed, Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOP8fzb_gkReLput7OvOK+8NHgw-RKqNv59vem7=524krQTcWA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJuF6cMWDDqU-vn_knZgma+2GMaout68YUgn1uyDnexRhqqM5Q@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Magnus Hagander	6b4d23feef	Track identical top vs nested queries independently in pg_stat_statements ... Changing pg_stat_statements.track between 'all' and 'top' would control if pg_stat_statements tracked just top level statements or also statements inside functions, but when tracking all it would not differentiate between the two. Being table to differentiate this is useful both to track where the actual query is coming from, and to see if there are differences in executions between the two. To do this, add a boolean to the hash key indicating if the statement was top level or not. Experience from the pg_stat_kcache module shows that in at least some "reasonable worloads" only <5% of the queries show up both top level and nested. Based on this, admittedly small, dataset, this patch does not try to de-duplicate those query *texts*, and will just store one copy for the top level and one for the nested. Author: Julien Rohaud Reviewed-By: Magnus Hagander, Masahiro Ikeda Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201202040516.GA43757@nol	5 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	2e0e066679	Update Unicode data to CLDR 39	5 years ago
Bruce Momjian	4f0b0966c8	Make use of in-core query id added by commit 5fd9dfa5f5 ... Use the in-core query id computation for pg_stat_activity, log_line_prefix, and EXPLAIN VERBOSE. Similar to other fields in pg_stat_activity, only the queryid from the top level statements are exposed, and if the backends status isn't active then the queryid from the last executed statements is displayed. Add a %Q placeholder to include the queryid in log_line_prefix, which will also only expose top level statements. For EXPLAIN VERBOSE, if a query identifier has been computed, either by enabling compute_query_id or using a third-party module, display it. Bump catalog version. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210407125726.tkvjdbw76hxnpwfi@nol Author: Julien Rouhaud Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Nitin Jadhav, Zhihong Yu	5 years ago
Robert Haas	ec7ffb8096	amcheck: fix multiple problems with TOAST pointer validation ... First, don't perform database access while holding a buffer lock. When checking a heap, we can validate that TOAST pointers are sane by performing a scan on the TOAST index and looking up the chunks that correspond to each value ID that appears in a TOAST poiner in the main table. But, to do that while holding a buffer lock at least risks causing other backends to wait uninterruptibly, and probably can cause undetected and uninterruptible deadlocks. So, instead, make a list of checks to perform while holding the lock, and then perform the checks after releasing it. Second, adjust things so that we don't try to follow TOAST pointers for tuples that are already eligible to be pruned. The TOAST tuples become eligible for pruning at the same time that the main tuple does, so trying to check them may lead to spurious reports of corruption, as observed in the buildfarm. The necessary infrastructure to decide whether or not the tuple being checked is prunable was added by commit 3b6c1259f9, but it wasn't actually used for its intended purpose prior to this patch. Mark Dilger, adjusted by me to avoid a memory leak. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/AC5479E4-6321-473D-AC92-5EC36299FBC2@enterprisedb.com	5 years ago
Bruce Momjian	5fd9dfa5f5	Move pg_stat_statements query jumbling to core. ... Add compute_query_id GUC to control whether a query identifier should be computed by the core (off by default). It's thefore now possible to disable core queryid computation and use pg_stat_statements with a different algorithm to compute the query identifier by using a third-party module. To ensure that a single source of query identifier can be used and is well defined, modules that calculate a query identifier should throw an error if compute_query_id specified to compute a query id and if a query idenfitier was already calculated. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210407125726.tkvjdbw76hxnpwfi@nol Author: Julien Rouhaud Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Nitin Jadhav, Zhihong Yu	5 years ago
Robert Haas	4573f6a9af	amcheck: Remove duplicate XID/MXID bounds checks. ... Commit 3b6c1259f9 resulted in the same xmin and xmax bounds checking being performed in both check_tuple() and check_tuple_visibility(). Remove the duplication. While at it, adjust some code comments that were overlooked in that commit. Mark Dilger Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/AC5479E4-6321-473D-AC92-5EC36299FBC2@enterprisedb.com	5 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	5c55dc8b47	libpq: Set Server Name Indication (SNI) for SSL connections ... By default, have libpq set the TLS extension "Server Name Indication" (SNI). This allows an SNI-aware SSL proxy to route connections. (This requires a proxy that is aware of the PostgreSQL protocol, not just any SSL proxy.) In the future, this could also allow the server to use different SSL certificates for different host specifications. (That would require new server functionality. This would be the client-side functionality for that.) Since SNI makes the host name appear in cleartext in the network traffic, this might be undesirable in some cases. Therefore, also add a libpq connection option "sslsni" to turn it off. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/7289d5eb-62a5-a732-c3b9-438cee2cb709%40enterprisedb.com	5 years ago
Heikki Linnakangas	d92b1cdbab	Revert "Add sortsupport for gist_btree opclasses, for faster index builds." ... This reverts commit 9f984ba6d2. It was making the buildfarm unhappy, apparently setting client_min_messages in a regression test produces different output if log_statement='all'. Another issue is that I now suspect the bit sortsupport function was in fact not correct to call byteacmp(). Revert to investigate both of those issues.	5 years ago
Heikki Linnakangas	9f984ba6d2	Add sortsupport for gist_btree opclasses, for faster index builds. ... Commit 16fa9b2b30 introduced a faster way to build GiST indexes, by sorting all the data. This commit adds the sortsupport functions needed to make use of that feature for btree_gist. Author: Andrey Borodin Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2F3F7265-0D22-44DB-AD71-8554C743D943@yandex-team.ru	5 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	0b5e824528	Message improvement ... The previous wording contained a superfluous comma. Adjust phrasing for grammatical correctness and clarity.	5 years ago
Michael Paquier	4c0239cb7a	Remove redundant memset(0) calls for page init of some index AMs ... Bloom, GIN, GiST and SP-GiST rely on PageInit() to initialize the contents of a page, and this routine fills entirely a page with zeros for a size of BLCKSZ, including the special space. Those index AMs have been using an extra memset() call to fill with zeros the special page space, or even the whole page, which is not necessary as PageInit() already does this work, so let's remove them. GiST was not doing this extra call, but has commented out a system call that did so since 6236991. While on it, remove one MAXALIGN() for SP-GiST as PageInit() takes care of that. This makes the whole page initialization logic more consistent across all index AMs. Author: Bharath Rupireddy Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Mahendra Singh Thalor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACViOo2qyaPT7krWm4LRyRTw9kOXt+g6PfNmYuGA=YHj9A@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Fujii Masao	a3740c48eb	postgres_fdw: Allow partitions specified in LIMIT TO to be imported. ... Commit f49bcd4ef3 disallowed postgres_fdw to import table partitions. Because all data can be accessed through the partitioned table which is the root of the partitioning hierarchy, importing only partitioned table should allow access to all the data without creating extra objects. This is a reasonable default when importing a whole schema. But there may be the case where users want to explicitly import one of a partitioned tables' partitions. For that use case, this commit allows postgres_fdw to import tables or foreign tables which are partitions of some other table only when they are explicitly specified in LIMIT TO clause. It doesn't change the behavior that any partitions not specified in LIMIT TO are automatically excluded in IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA command. Author: Matthias van de Meent Reviewed-by: Bernd Helmle, Amit Langote, Michael Paquier, Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2Whwg4i=mzApMe+PXxCEfgoZmHGqdqQFW7J4bmj_5p6t1A@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	3a51306722	psql: Show all query results by default ... Previously, psql printed only the last result if a command string returned multiple result sets. Now it prints all of them. The previous behavior can be obtained by setting the psql variable SHOW_ALL_RESULTS to off. Author: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> Reviewed-by: "Iwata, Aya" <iwata.aya@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904132231510.8961@lancre	5 years ago
Andres Freund	1d9c5d0ce2	Do not rely on pgstat.h to indirectly include storage/ headers. ... An upcoming patch might remove the (now indirect) proc.h include (which in turn includes other headers), and it's cleaner for the modified files to include their dependencies directly anyway... Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210402194458.2vu324hkk2djq6ce@alap3.anarazel.de	5 years ago
Fujii Masao	b1be3074ac	postgres_fdw: Add option to control whether to keep connections open. ... This commit adds a new option keep_connections that controls whether postgres_fdw keeps the connections to the foreign server open so that the subsequent queries can re-use them. This option can only be specified for a foreign server. The default is on. If set to off, all connections to the foreign server will be discarded at the end of transaction. Closed connections will be re-established when they are necessary by future queries using a foreign table. This option is useful, for example, when users want to prevent the connections from eating up the foreign servers connections capacity. Author: Bharath Rupireddy Reviewed-by: Alexey Kondratov, Vignesh C, Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVvrp5=AVp2PupEm+nAC8S4buqR3fJMmaCoc7ftT0aD2A@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Fujii Masao	98e5bd103f	Fix typos in comments. ... Author: Masahiko Sawada Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoA1YL7t0nzVSEySx6zOaE7xO3r0jyu8hkitGL2_XbaMxQ@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
David Rowley	9eacee2e62	Add Result Cache executor node (take 2) ... Here we add a new executor node type named "Result Cache". The planner can include this node type in the plan to have the executor cache the results from the inner side of parameterized nested loop joins. This allows caching of tuples for sets of parameters so that in the event that the node sees the same parameter values again, it can just return the cached tuples instead of rescanning the inner side of the join all over again. Internally, result cache uses a hash table in order to quickly find tuples that have been previously cached. For certain data sets, this can significantly improve the performance of joins. The best cases for using this new node type are for join problems where a large portion of the tuples from the inner side of the join have no join partner on the outer side of the join. In such cases, hash join would have to hash values that are never looked up, thus bloating the hash table and possibly causing it to multi-batch. Merge joins would have to skip over all of the unmatched rows. If we use a nested loop join with a result cache, then we only cache tuples that have at least one join partner on the outer side of the join. The benefits of using a parameterized nested loop with a result cache increase when there are fewer distinct values being looked up and the number of lookups of each value is large. Also, hash probes to lookup the cache can be much faster than the hash probe in a hash join as it's common that the result cache's hash table is much smaller than the hash join's due to result cache only caching useful tuples rather than all tuples from the inner side of the join. This variation in hash probe performance is more significant when the hash join's hash table no longer fits into the CPU's L3 cache, but the result cache's hash table does. The apparent "random" access of hash buckets with each hash probe can cause a poor L3 cache hit ratio for large hash tables. Smaller hash tables generally perform better. The hash table used for the cache limits itself to not exceeding work_mem * hash_mem_multiplier in size. We maintain a dlist of keys for this cache and when we're adding new tuples and realize we've exceeded the memory budget, we evict cache entries starting with the least recently used ones until we have enough memory to add the new tuples to the cache. For parameterized nested loop joins, we now consider using one of these result cache nodes in between the nested loop node and its inner node. We determine when this might be useful based on cost, which is primarily driven off of what the expected cache hit ratio will be. Estimating the cache hit ratio relies on having good distinct estimates on the nested loop's parameters. For now, the planner will only consider using a result cache for parameterized nested loop joins. This works for both normal joins and also for LATERAL type joins to subqueries. It is possible to use this new node for other uses in the future. For example, to cache results from correlated subqueries. However, that's not done here due to some difficulties obtaining a distinct estimation on the outer plan to calculate the estimated cache hit ratio. Currently we plan the inner plan before planning the outer plan so there is no good way to know if a result cache would be useful or not since we can't estimate the number of times the subplan will be called until the outer plan is generated. The functionality being added here is newly introducing a dependency on the return value of estimate_num_groups() during the join search. Previously, during the join search, we only ever needed to perform selectivity estimations. With this commit, we need to use estimate_num_groups() in order to estimate what the hit ratio on the result cache will be. In simple terms, if we expect 10 distinct values and we expect 1000 outer rows, then we'll estimate the hit ratio to be 99%. Since cache hits are very cheap compared to scanning the underlying nodes on the inner side of the nested loop join, then this will significantly reduce the planner's cost for the join. However, it's fairly easy to see here that things will go bad when estimate_num_groups() incorrectly returns a value that's significantly lower than the actual number of distinct values. If this happens then that may cause us to make use of a nested loop join with a result cache instead of some other join type, such as a merge or hash join. Our distinct estimations have been known to be a source of trouble in the past, so the extra reliance on them here could cause the planner to choose slower plans than it did previous to having this feature. Distinct estimations are also fairly hard to estimate accurately when several tables have been joined already or when a WHERE clause filters out a set of values that are correlated to the expressions we're estimating the number of distinct value for. For now, the costing we perform during query planning for result caches does put quite a bit of faith in the distinct estimations being accurate. When these are accurate then we should generally see faster execution times for plans containing a result cache. However, in the real world, we may find that we need to either change the costings to put less trust in the distinct estimations being accurate or perhaps even disable this feature by default. There's always an element of risk when we teach the query planner to do new tricks that it decides to use that new trick at the wrong time and causes a regression. Users may opt to get the old behavior by turning the feature off using the enable_resultcache GUC. Currently, this is enabled by default. It remains to be seen if we'll maintain that setting for the release. Additionally, the name "Result Cache" is the best name I could think of for this new node at the time I started writing the patch. Nobody seems to strongly dislike the name. A few people did suggest other names but no other name seemed to dominate in the brief discussion that there was about names. Let's allow the beta period to see if the current name pleases enough people. If there's some consensus on a better name, then we can change it before the release. Please see the 2nd discussion link below for the discussion on the "Result Cache" name. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Andy Fan, Justin Pryzby, Zhihong Yu, Hou Zhijie Tested-By: Konstantin Knizhnik Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrPcQyQdWERGYWx8J%2B2DLUNgXu%2BfOSbQ1UscxrunyXyrQ%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq=yQXr5kqhRviT2RhNKwToaWr9JAN5t+5_PzhuRJ3wvg@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Stephen Frost	c9c41c7a33	Rename Default Roles to Predefined Roles ... The term 'default roles' wasn't quite apt as these roles aren't able to be modified or removed after installation, so rename them to be 'Predefined Roles' instead, adding an entry into the newly added Obsolete Appendix to help users of current releases find the new documentation. Bruce Momjian and Stephen Frost Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/157742545062.1149.11052653770497832538%40wrigleys.postgresql.org and https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201120211304.GG16415@tamriel.snowman.net	5 years ago
Robert Haas	3b6c1259f9	amcheck: Fix verify_heapam's tuple visibility checking rules. ... We now follow the order of checks from HeapTupleSatisfies* more closely to avoid coming to erroneous conclusions. Mark Dilger and Robert Haas Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmob6sii0yTvULYJ0Vq4w6ZBmj7zUhddL3b+SKDi9z9NA7Q@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
David Rowley	28b3e3905c	Revert b6002a796 ... This removes "Add Result Cache executor node". It seems that something weird is going on with the tracking of cache hits and misses as highlighted by many buildfarm animals. It's not yet clear what the problem is as other parts of the plan indicate that the cache did work correctly, it's just the hits and misses that were being reported as 0. This is especially a bad time to have the buildfarm so broken, so reverting before too many more animals go red. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq_hydhfovm4=izgWs+C5HqEeRScjMbOgbpC-jRAeK3Yw@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
David Rowley	b6002a796d	Add Result Cache executor node ... Here we add a new executor node type named "Result Cache". The planner can include this node type in the plan to have the executor cache the results from the inner side of parameterized nested loop joins. This allows caching of tuples for sets of parameters so that in the event that the node sees the same parameter values again, it can just return the cached tuples instead of rescanning the inner side of the join all over again. Internally, result cache uses a hash table in order to quickly find tuples that have been previously cached. For certain data sets, this can significantly improve the performance of joins. The best cases for using this new node type are for join problems where a large portion of the tuples from the inner side of the join have no join partner on the outer side of the join. In such cases, hash join would have to hash values that are never looked up, thus bloating the hash table and possibly causing it to multi-batch. Merge joins would have to skip over all of the unmatched rows. If we use a nested loop join with a result cache, then we only cache tuples that have at least one join partner on the outer side of the join. The benefits of using a parameterized nested loop with a result cache increase when there are fewer distinct values being looked up and the number of lookups of each value is large. Also, hash probes to lookup the cache can be much faster than the hash probe in a hash join as it's common that the result cache's hash table is much smaller than the hash join's due to result cache only caching useful tuples rather than all tuples from the inner side of the join. This variation in hash probe performance is more significant when the hash join's hash table no longer fits into the CPU's L3 cache, but the result cache's hash table does. The apparent "random" access of hash buckets with each hash probe can cause a poor L3 cache hit ratio for large hash tables. Smaller hash tables generally perform better. The hash table used for the cache limits itself to not exceeding work_mem * hash_mem_multiplier in size. We maintain a dlist of keys for this cache and when we're adding new tuples and realize we've exceeded the memory budget, we evict cache entries starting with the least recently used ones until we have enough memory to add the new tuples to the cache. For parameterized nested loop joins, we now consider using one of these result cache nodes in between the nested loop node and its inner node. We determine when this might be useful based on cost, which is primarily driven off of what the expected cache hit ratio will be. Estimating the cache hit ratio relies on having good distinct estimates on the nested loop's parameters. For now, the planner will only consider using a result cache for parameterized nested loop joins. This works for both normal joins and also for LATERAL type joins to subqueries. It is possible to use this new node for other uses in the future. For example, to cache results from correlated subqueries. However, that's not done here due to some difficulties obtaining a distinct estimation on the outer plan to calculate the estimated cache hit ratio. Currently we plan the inner plan before planning the outer plan so there is no good way to know if a result cache would be useful or not since we can't estimate the number of times the subplan will be called until the outer plan is generated. The functionality being added here is newly introducing a dependency on the return value of estimate_num_groups() during the join search. Previously, during the join search, we only ever needed to perform selectivity estimations. With this commit, we need to use estimate_num_groups() in order to estimate what the hit ratio on the result cache will be. In simple terms, if we expect 10 distinct values and we expect 1000 outer rows, then we'll estimate the hit ratio to be 99%. Since cache hits are very cheap compared to scanning the underlying nodes on the inner side of the nested loop join, then this will significantly reduce the planner's cost for the join. However, it's fairly easy to see here that things will go bad when estimate_num_groups() incorrectly returns a value that's significantly lower than the actual number of distinct values. If this happens then that may cause us to make use of a nested loop join with a result cache instead of some other join type, such as a merge or hash join. Our distinct estimations have been known to be a source of trouble in the past, so the extra reliance on them here could cause the planner to choose slower plans than it did previous to having this feature. Distinct estimations are also fairly hard to estimate accurately when several tables have been joined already or when a WHERE clause filters out a set of values that are correlated to the expressions we're estimating the number of distinct value for. For now, the costing we perform during query planning for result caches does put quite a bit of faith in the distinct estimations being accurate. When these are accurate then we should generally see faster execution times for plans containing a result cache. However, in the real world, we may find that we need to either change the costings to put less trust in the distinct estimations being accurate or perhaps even disable this feature by default. There's always an element of risk when we teach the query planner to do new tricks that it decides to use that new trick at the wrong time and causes a regression. Users may opt to get the old behavior by turning the feature off using the enable_resultcache GUC. Currently, this is enabled by default. It remains to be seen if we'll maintain that setting for the release. Additionally, the name "Result Cache" is the best name I could think of for this new node at the time I started writing the patch. Nobody seems to strongly dislike the name. A few people did suggest other names but no other name seemed to dominate in the brief discussion that there was about names. Let's allow the beta period to see if the current name pleases enough people. If there's some consensus on a better name, then we can change it before the release. Please see the 2nd discussion link below for the discussion on the "Result Cache" name. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Andy Fan, Justin Pryzby, Zhihong Yu Tested-By: Konstantin Knizhnik Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrPcQyQdWERGYWx8J%2B2DLUNgXu%2BfOSbQ1UscxrunyXyrQ%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq=yQXr5kqhRviT2RhNKwToaWr9JAN5t+5_PzhuRJ3wvg@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Tom Lane	8998e3cafa	Silence compiler warning in non-assert builds. ... Per buildfarm.	5 years ago
Tom Lane	86dc90056d	Rework planning and execution of UPDATE and DELETE. ... This patch makes two closely related sets of changes: 1. For UPDATE, the subplan of the ModifyTable node now only delivers the new values of the changed columns (i.e., the expressions computed in the query's SET clause) plus row identity information such as CTID. ModifyTable must re-fetch the original tuple to merge in the old values of any unchanged columns. The core advantage of this is that the changed columns are uniform across all tables of an inherited or partitioned target relation, whereas the other columns might not be. A secondary advantage, when the UPDATE involves joins, is that less data needs to pass through the plan tree. The disadvantage of course is an extra fetch of each tuple to be updated. However, that seems to be very nearly free in context; even worst-case tests don't show it to add more than a couple percent to the total query cost. At some point it might be interesting to combine the re-fetch with the tuple access that ModifyTable must do anyway to mark the old tuple dead; but that would require a good deal of refactoring and it seems it wouldn't buy all that much, so this patch doesn't attempt it. 2. For inherited UPDATE/DELETE, instead of generating a separate subplan for each target relation, we now generate a single subplan that is just exactly like a SELECT's plan, then stick ModifyTable on top of that. To let ModifyTable know which target relation a given incoming row refers to, a tableoid junk column is added to the row identity information. This gets rid of the horrid hack that was inheritance_planner(), eliminating O(N^2) planning cost and memory consumption in cases where there were many unprunable target relations. Point 2 of course requires point 1, so that there is a uniform definition of the non-junk columns to be returned by the subplan. We can't insist on uniform definition of the row identity junk columns however, if we want to keep the ability to have both plain and foreign tables in a partitioning hierarchy. Since it wouldn't scale very far to have every child table have its own row identity column, this patch includes provisions to merge similar row identity columns into one column of the subplan result. In particular, we can merge the whole-row Vars typically used as row identity by FDWs into one column by pretending they are type RECORD. (It's still okay for the actual composite Datums to be labeled with the table's rowtype OID, though.) There is more that can be done to file down residual inefficiencies in this patch, but it seems to be committable now. FDW authors should note several API changes: * The argument list for AddForeignUpdateTargets() has changed, and so has the method it must use for adding junk columns to the query. Call add_row_identity_var() instead of manipulating the parse tree directly. You might want to reconsider exactly what you're adding, too. * PlanDirectModify() must now work a little harder to find the ForeignScan plan node; if the foreign table is part of a partitioning hierarchy then the ForeignScan might not be the direct child of ModifyTable. See postgres_fdw for sample code. * To check whether a relation is a target relation, it's no longer sufficient to compare its relid to root->parse->resultRelation. Instead, check it against all_result_relids or leaf_result_relids, as appropriate. Amit Langote and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqHpHdqdDn48yCEhynnniahH78rwcrv1rEX65-fsZGBOLQ@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Etsuro Fujita	27e1f14563	Add support for asynchronous execution. ... This implements asynchronous execution, which runs multiple parts of a non-parallel-aware Append concurrently rather than serially to improve performance when possible. Currently, the only node type that can be run concurrently is a ForeignScan that is an immediate child of such an Append. In the case where such ForeignScans access data on different remote servers, this would run those ForeignScans concurrently, and overlap the remote operations to be performed simultaneously, so it'll improve the performance especially when the operations involve time-consuming ones such as remote join and remote aggregation. We may extend this to other node types such as joins or aggregates over ForeignScans in the future. This also adds the support for postgres_fdw, which is enabled by the table-level/server-level option "async_capable". The default is false. Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Thomas Munro, and myself. This commit is mostly based on the patch proposed by Robert Haas, but also uses stuff from the patch proposed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and from the patch proposed by Thomas Munro. Reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Konstantin Knizhnik, Andrey Lepikhov, Movead Li, Thomas Munro, Justin Pryzby, and others. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoaXQEt4tZ03FtQhnzeDEMzBck%2BLrni0UWHVVgOTnA6C1w%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLBRyu0rHrDCMC4%3DRn3252gogyp1SjOgG8SEKKZv%3DFwfQ%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200228.170650.667613673625155850.horikyota.ntt%40gmail.com	5 years ago
Amit Kapila	13cb5bd846	Remove extra semicolon in postgres_fdw tests. ... Author: Suraj Kharage Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy, Vignesh C Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF1DzPWRfxUeH-wShz7P_pK5Tx6M_nEK+TkS8gn5ngvg07Q5=g@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Bruce Momjian	9ee7d533da	adjust dblink regression expected output for commit 5da9868ed9 ... Seems the -1/singular output is used in the dblink regression tests. Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210330231506.GA10666@alvherre.pgsql	5 years ago
David Rowley	ed934d4fa3	Allow estimate_num_groups() to pass back further details about the estimation ... Here we add a new output parameter to estimate_num_groups() to allow it to inform the caller of additional, possibly useful information about the estimation. The new output parameter is a struct that currently contains just a single field with a set of flags. This was done rather than having the flags as an output parameter to allow future fields to be added without having to change the signature of the function at a later date when we want to pass back further information that might not be suitable to store in the flags field. It seems reasonable that one day in the future that the planner would want to know more about the estimation. For example, how many individual sets of statistics was the estimation generated from? The planner may want to take that into account if we ever want to consider risks as well as costs when generating plans. For now, there's only 1 flag we set in the flags field. This is to indicate if the estimation fell back on using the hard-coded constants in any part of the estimation. Callers may like to change their behavior if this is set, and this gives them the ability to do so. Callers may pass the flag pointer as NULL if they have no interest in obtaining any additional information about the estimate. We're not adding any actual usages of these flags here. Some follow-up commits will make use of this feature. Additionally, we're also not making any changes to add support for clauselist_selectivity() and clauselist_selectivity_ext(). However, if this is required in the future then the same struct being added here should be fine to use as a new output argument for those functions too. Author: David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqQqpk=1W-G_ds7A9CsXX3BggWj_7okinzkLVhDubQzjA@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Amit Kapila	f64ea6dc5c	Add a xid argument to the filter_prepare callback for output plugins. ... Along with gid, this provides a different way to identify the transaction. The users that use xid in some way to prepare the transactions can use it to filter prepare transactions. The later commands COMMIT PREPARED or ROLLBACK PREPARED carries both identifiers, providing an output plugin the choice of what to use. Author: Markus Wanner Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ee280000-7355-c4dc-e47b-2436e7be959c@enterprisedb.com	5 years ago
Etsuro Fujita	bc2797ebb1	Update obsolete comment. ... Back-patch to all supported branches. Author: Etsuro Fujita Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK17DwzaSf%2BB71dhL2apXdtG-OmD6u2AL9Cq2ZmAR0%2BzapQ%40mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	22e1943f13	pgcrypto: Check for error return of px_cipher_decrypt() ... This has previously not been a problem (that anyone ever reported), but in future OpenSSL versions (3.0.0), where legacy ciphers are/can be disabled, this is the place where this is reported. So we need to catch the error here, otherwise the higher-level functions would return garbage. The nearby encryption code already handled errors similarly. Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9e9c431c-0adc-7a6d-9b1a-915de1ba3fe7@enterprisedb.com	5 years ago
Robert Haas	bbe0a81db6	Allow configurable LZ4 TOAST compression. ... There is now a per-column COMPRESSION option which can be set to pglz (the default, and the only option in up until now) or lz4. Or, if you like, you can set the new default_toast_compression GUC to lz4, and then that will be the default for new table columns for which no value is specified. We don't have lz4 support in the PostgreSQL code, so to use lz4 compression, PostgreSQL must be built --with-lz4. In general, TOAST compression means compression of individual column values, not the whole tuple, and those values can either be compressed inline within the tuple or compressed and then stored externally in the TOAST table, so those properties also apply to this feature. Prior to this commit, a TOAST pointer has two unused bits as part of the va_extsize field, and a compessed datum has two unused bits as part of the va_rawsize field. These bits are unused because the length of a varlena is limited to 1GB; we now use them to indicate the compression type that was used. This means we only have bit space for 2 more built-in compresison types, but we could work around that problem, if necessary, by introducing a new vartag_external value for any further types we end up wanting to add. Hopefully, it won't be too important to offer a wide selection of algorithms here, since each one we add not only takes more coding but also adds a build dependency for every packager. Nevertheless, it seems worth doing at least this much, because LZ4 gets better compression than PGLZ with less CPU usage. It's possible for LZ4-compressed datums to leak into composite type values stored on disk, just as it is for PGLZ. It's also possible for LZ4-compressed attributes to be copied into a different table via SQL commands such as CREATE TABLE AS or INSERT .. SELECT. It would be expensive to force such values to be decompressed, so PostgreSQL has never done so. For the same reasons, we also don't force recompression of already-compressed values even if the target table prefers a different compression method than was used for the source data. These architectural decisions are perhaps arguable but revisiting them is well beyond the scope of what seemed possible to do as part of this project. However, it's relatively cheap to recompress as part of VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER, so this commit adjusts those commands to do so, if the configured compression method of the table happens not to match what was used for some column value stored therein. Dilip Kumar. The original patches on which this work was based were written by Ildus Kurbangaliev, and those were patches were based on even earlier work by Nikita Glukhov, but the design has since changed very substantially, since allow a potentially large number of compression methods that could be added and dropped on a running system proved too problematic given some of the architectural issues mentioned above; the choice of which specific compression method to add first is now different; and a lot of the code has been heavily refactored. More recently, Justin Przyby helped quite a bit with testing and reviewing and this version also includes some code contributions from him. Other design input and review from Tomas Vondra, Álvaro Herrera, Andres Freund, Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov, and me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170907194236.4cefce96%40wp.localdomain Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-uUpX3ck%3DK0mLEk-G_kUQY%3DSNOTeqdaNRR9FMdQrHKebw%40mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Andres Freund	5f79580ad6	Fix memory lifetime issues of replication slot stats. ... When accessing replication slot stats, introduced in 9868167500, pgstat_read_statsfiles() reads the data into newly allocated memory. Unfortunately the current memory context at that point is the callers, leading to leaks and use-after-free dangers. The fix is trivial, explicitly use pgStatLocalContext. There's some potential for further improvements, but that's outside of the scope of this bugfix. No backpatch necessary, feature is only in HEAD. Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210317230447.c7uc4g3vbs4wi32i@alap3.anarazel.de	5 years ago
Peter Geoghegan	65445469d6	amcheck: Reduce debug message verbosity. ... Empty sibling pages can occasionally be much more common than any other event that we report on at elevel DEBUG1. Increase the elevel for relevant cases to DEBUG2 to avoid overwhelming the user with relatively insignificant details.	5 years ago
Robert Haas	4078ce65a0	Fix a confusing amcheck corruption message. ... Don't complain about the last TOAST chunk number being different from what we expected if there are no TOAST chunks at all. In such a case, saying that the final chunk number is 0 is not really accurate, and the fact the value is missing from the TOAST table is reported separately anyway. Mark Dilger Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/AA5506CE-7D2A-42E4-A51D-358635E3722D@enterprisedb.com	5 years ago
Michael Paquier	0ba71107ef	Revert changes for SSL compression in libpq ... This partially reverts 096bbf7 and 9d2d457, undoing the libpq changes as it could cause breakages in distributions that share one single libpq version across multiple major versions of Postgres for extensions and applications linking to that. Note that the backend is unchanged here, and it still disables SSL compression while simplifying the underlying catalogs that tracked if compression was enabled or not for a SSL connection. Per discussion with Tom Lane and Daniel Gustafsson. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YEbq15JKJwIX+S6m@paquier.xyz	5 years ago
Michael Paquier	096bbf7c93	Switch back sslcompression to be a normal input field in libpq ... Per buildfarm member crake, any servers including a postgres_fdw server with this option set would fail to do a pg_upgrade properly as the option got hidden in f9264d1 by becoming a debug option, making the restore of the FDW server fail. This changes back the option in libpq to be visible, but still inactive to fix this upgrade issue. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YEbq15JKJwIX+S6m@paquier.xyz	5 years ago
Michael Paquier	f9264d1524	Remove support for SSL compression ... PostgreSQL disabled compression as of e3bdb2d and the documentation recommends against using it since. Additionally, SSL compression has been disabled in OpenSSL since version 1.1.0, and was disabled in many distributions long before that. The most recent TLS version, TLSv1.3, disallows compression at the protocol level. This commit removes the feature itself, removing support for the libpq parameter sslcompression (parameter still listed for compatibility reasons with existing connection strings, just ignored), and removes the equivalent field in pg_stat_ssl and de facto PgBackendSSLStatus. Note that, on top of removing the ability to activate compression by configuration, compression is actively disabled in both frontend and backend to avoid overrides from local configurations. A TAP test is added for deprecated SSL parameters to check after backwards compatibility. Bump catalog version. Author: Daniel Gustafsson Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Magnus Hagander, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7E384D48-11C5-441B-9EC3-F7DB1F8518F6@yesql.se	5 years ago
Tom Lane	1265a9c8f8	Add binary I/O capability for cube datatype. ... We can adjust the not-yet-released cube--1.4--1.5.sql upgrade rather than making a whole new version. KaiGai Kohei Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOP8fzZO4y60QPTK=RGDXeVeVHV9tLHKOsh7voUOoUouVCPV8A@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago